With the end of prosperity, troubles grow (1945 -1990):
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Ours is a young nation industrially, and we are trying to
develop a modern technological society." - Time magazine, 1970 |
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When Tito died in 1980, Yugoslavia
began to fall apart. The global economy went into a
recession and loans sustaining Yugoslavia disappeared,
leaving Yugoslavia economically troubled. After Tito, a
succession of weak presidents could not keep the different
ethnicities together. As a result, ethnicities became more
nationalistic and quarreled. These factors increased
conflict and would soon spark war. |
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Source: Time magazine, 1970
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" When Tito died the entire nation
cried " - Jelica Francuz |
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It was a sad day for our country hearing that our Tito died
" - Ana Lebovic |
Source: politika.co.yu
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" By the force of social circumstances this great 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo is taking place in a year in which Serbia, after many years, after many decades, has regained its state, national, and spiritual integrity. “
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Source: politika.co.yu
Source: Politika, Tanjug
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politics of the Republic of Serbia is opposite with the politics
of Yugoslavia, and Republic of Serbia is the first one who
indicated that conflict. Misunderstandings start from the contra
revolution in Kosovo in 1981, when representatives of Slovenia
were the loudest in incepting the state in this province, in
spite of the opposing viewpoints of the highest Yugoslav
officials." - Politika, 1990 |
Content:
1918 - 1945
Josip Broz-Tito
1945-1990 |
Timeline:
Source: Yugoslavia a Concise History, Benson
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April 1963
- New Constitution. The state is renamed the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
May 1980
- Death of Tito. Collective Presidency installed
March 1981
- Riots break Out in Kosovo
October 1986
Spring 1988
- Tensions between the Yugoslav People’s Army and the Slovenes
erupt in protest with the arrest of the ‘Ljubljana Four’
October 1988
- Autonomous federal status of Vojvodina abolished by a new
Serbian republican constitution
March 1989
- Autonomous federal status of Kosovo surrendered by the
provincial assembly in Pristina, amid a strong show of armed
force.
28 June 1989
- Milosevic addresses a million Serbs at the 600th
anniversary of Kosovo Field battle
January 22 1990
- LCY Fourteenth Congress abandoned after Slovenian delegates
walk out
April 1990
- Multi-party elections in Croatia and Slovenia |